Title: Organic Farming and Climate Change

Description: Study focusing on organic agriculture and mitigation and adaptation to predictable and unpredictable impacts of climate change. The publication looks at the general contribution of agriculture to climate change and discusses the considerable potential of organic agriculture for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and its contribution to sequestration of CO2 in the soil. It further outlines weaknesses of organic agriculture in the context of climate change and discusses the inclusion of organic agriculture in voluntary CO2 emissions markets. At the end the paper includes bibliography and a list of useful links (pp. 24-27)

Author(s): Urs Niggli, Heinz Schmid, Andreas Fliessbach

Publisher/Editor: FiBL, International Trade Center (UNCTAD/WTO)

Year: 2007

Number of Pages: 27

Language: English

Format: Free PDF

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